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History Across the Genres: List by Charlotte Gray
Canada's pre-eminent biographer lists 15 great biographies, non-fiction books, and historical novels.
“This is so Mom can get her book done": Carrie Snyder on being a mother who is also a writer
"This time around, I do not feel at a remove from the process. I do not feel like an imposter moving between sealed compartments. Ask me what I do, and …
Joanne Schwartz and Danny Christopher on The Legend of the Fog, their Inuit picture book with Qaunaq Mikkigak.
The Legend of the Fog translates an ancient Inuit oral tale into haunting words and images.
Freedom to Read Week: A List of Challenged Books in Canada
"Burning books is designed to intimidate people. It underestimates the intelligence of readers, stifles dialogue and insults those who cherish the freedom …
Anakana Schofield on literary Vancouver: "Books that made me turn off the vacuum"
"Here are some, of the many, local Vancouver books that have caused me to strand the hoover in the middle of the floor and search for a paragraph or moment …
Maggie Helwig's Girls Fall Down named 2012 One Book: Toronto [author interview]
Read our interview with Maggie Helwig, author of the 2012 One Book: Toronto selection Girls Fall Down.
2012 Canadian Literary Festivals: Guide to the Pre-Season
These literary festivals are a spring-like harbinger of packed weekends to come.
Gerry Fostaty on reliving a youthful trauma in his memoir As You Were: The Tragedy at Valcartier
Julie Wilson: The tragedy of which you speak in your book, As You Were: The Tragedy at Valcartier occurred in 1974 on a Canadian Forces Base in Valcartier, …
Five Canadian speculative fiction titles for literary readers/ Five Canadian literary titles for speculative fiction readers (by Leah Bobet)
Novelist Leah Bobet on the best Canadian authors writing on the border between speculative and literary fiction.
No Solitudes: Leah Bobet on CanLit's genre-bilingualism
"Just as whole schools of Canadian novelists speak in echoed and doubled voices, whispering in two languages and two countries at once, we are quietly …